ChatGPT: IPARD III Tenth Call for Applications Has Been Announced.
Who Can Benefit?
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
- Producer organizations or legal entities in which producer organizations hold majority ownership
- Real or legal persons and companies applying must be registered with KOSGEB
- Public legal entities and legal entities with more than 25% public share cannot apply
(except the union of chambers of agriculture or provincial/district chambers of agriculture)
- As of the application date, individuals must be at least 18 years old and not older than 65
(if the applicant is a legal entity, the authorized representative must meet this age requirement)
- Applicants must be registered in the tax system and must not have any outstanding tax or social security (SGK) debts
Supported Areas and Support Components
In investment areas related to the processing and marketing of milk and dairy products, red meat and meat products, poultry meat and meat products, aquaculture products, fruit and vegetable products, and eggs, the following expenses are intended to be supported:
- Construction works
- Machinery-equipment
- Services
- Visibility (promotion) expenses
1- Milk Processing:
- Aims to improve the cold chain in milk collection and processing, increase production capacities of small and medium-sized milk collection centers and milk processing plants, improve the quality of milk or whey-based products, increase production capacities, strengthen competitiveness, and ensure compliance with environmental standards.
- Milk processing and whey processing facilities must have a minimum daily processing capacity of 10 tons at the end of the investment.
- A single applicant may establish up to 5 milk collection centers, provided that total capacity and support limits are not exceeded.
- Project cost must be between 30,000 and 3,000,000 EUR for milk processing plants (including whey) and between 30,000 and 1,000,000 EUR for milk collection centers.
2- Meat and Egg Processing:
- Aims to establish slaughterhouses for cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, and poultry; renovate existing slaughterhouses and meat processing facilities; and establish liquid, powder, or processed egg production facilities to extend the shelf life of eggs.
- Red meat slaughterhouses must have a daily slaughter capacity of 30–500 head of cattle/buffalo and/or 50–4,000 sheep/goats at the end of the investment.
- Combined slaughterhouse and meat processing/cutting facilities must meet the above requirements separately.
- Meat processing and cutting facilities must have a daily capacity of 0.5–5 tons.
Only renovation investments are supported in meat processing facilities; capacity increase or new facility investments are NOT supported.
- In poultry meat cutting facilities, only modernization and capacity increase of existing facilities are eligible; new poultry cutting facilities are NOT supported.
- At the end of the investment, liquid egg facilities must have a daily capacity of 3–10 tons, powder egg facilities must have 5–15 tons.
- Poultry slaughterhouses must have a capacity of 2,000–7,000 chickens/hour or 100–1,000 turkeys/geese/hour at the end of the investment.
Capacity increase or construction of new poultry slaughterhouses is NOT supported.
- Project cost must be between 30,000 and 3,000,000 EUR.
3- Aquaculture Processing:
- Aims to minimize post-harvest losses by establishing cold chain systems, increase the capacity of small and medium-sized processing facilities to reach EU standards, modernize processes, and improve processing technology and value-added product diversity to enhance competitiveness.
- At the end of the investment, the processing plant must have an annual processing capacity of 100–2,000 tons of aquaculture products, fish oil, mollusks, bivalves, or crustaceans.
- Only land-based investments are supported.
Investments related to non-food aquaculture or fish farming are NOT eligible.
However, investments related to the processing and marketing of wastes from aquaculture products intended for human consumption ARE eligible.
- Project cost must be between 30,000 and 1,500,000 EUR.
4- Fruit and Vegetable Processing:
- Aims to reduce post-harvest losses, improve the capacity of cold storage and drying facilities, ensure compliance with EU standards, and eliminate environmentally harmful production processes.
- Support is provided for storage, sorting, processing, drying, roasting, freezing, and packaging of fruits and vegetables.
- At the end of the investment, the cold storage capacity must not exceed 10,000 m³.
This upper limit does NOT apply to producer organizations or legal entities where producer organizations hold majority ownership.
- Project cost must be between 30,000 and 1,250,000 EUR.
Common Provisions:
- The investment must be located in one of the 81 provinces supported by TKDK.
- Facilities listed as EU-approved third-country establishments for animal-based food (on the DG SANTE website) are NOT eligible.
- Investment duration:
Up to 9 months for projects without construction works
Up to 18 months for projects with construction works
- The investment must remain operational for 5 years after the final payment.
– If the facility is rented, this must be considered.
Support rate:
70% grant for producer organizations making joint investments
50% grant for SMEs
- For IPARD III 10th Call, 1 EUR = 46.7776 TL is used in calculations.
- An additional 10% grant is provided ONLY for expenditures related to wastewater treatment, efficient use of waste materials, and renewable energy investments.
Eligible expenses:
Construction, machinery-equipment purchases, hardware and software used in production, refrigerated vehicles, on-grid renewable energy systems for self-consumption, business plan preparation, engineering, architecture and other consultancy fees, license and patent acquisition costs, visibility expenses.
- Non-eligible expenses:
Purchase of land and existing buildings, second-hand machinery-equipment, all taxes, operating expenses, maintenance and depreciation, any rental expenses.
- If the investment is on rented property, a minimum 5-year rental contract after project completion is required.
- Only one application can be made per call.
During the IPARD III Implementation Period (2021–2027), support can be obtained for a maximum of 4 eligible investments, but in any case, the total support amount cannot exceed 3,000,000 EUR.
- Establishment of new facilities is eligible for milk processing, whey processing, milk collection, red meat slaughterhouses and cutting plants, egg processing plants, fruit and vegetable, and aquaculture sectors, provided there is no excess capacity in the province at the time of application.
- If the applicant or the person authorized to represent a legal entity is a woman, an additional 10 points are awarded during evaluation.
When is the Application Period?
- Applications will be accepted at the TKDK Provincial Coordination Offices in the province where the investment will be implemented starting from 18 November 2025 at 09:00.
- The online project application system will close on 24 December 2025 at 18:00.
- The deadline for submitting the physical documents to the Provincial Coordination Offices after the online application is 29 December 2025 at 18:00.
